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Theme Song. On the Big Day, people came by foot, by train and car, by mule-drawn wagon. They sat on the courthouse lawn, opening their picnic baskets of fried chicken and cherry pie, gaping at the broadcasting equipment, listening to the seven bands parading in courthouse square and shrewdly eyeing the big-city reporters. (The newsmen lounged in a vacant building where whiskey was free...
...first possible boat to Paris. In San Francisco, Department Storekeeper Paul Verdier closed his doors and broke out champagne for his 600 employes. In Hollywood, husky-voiced Tallulah Bankhead, who had vowed not to take a drink until complete Allied victory, was rumored to have fallen off the wagon at an Elsa Maxwell Paris celebration party...
...stainless-steel, heated food wagon, complete with dish racks and thermos containers, which will enable a hostess to serve a piping hot meal without rising from her seat...
...editors in New York knew all the intimate things said and done on this long, excited train ride home that I thought you would like to hear how TIME found out about the Marine who jumped off the train to scrounge a piece of ice from a wagon-and the red-headed sergeant who "noticed" the 40? beer-and the 23-year-old corporal who was so glad to be back he "just lay in his bunk all night grinning...
...first rickety tracks followed the old Santa Fe wagon and cattle trail, west from Topeka through Council Grove, Dodge City, across the muddy Arkansas River and into New Mexico. There were few passengers and not much freight until the West grew. But the West grew. And the West is still growing. Railroader Gur ley expects the Santa Fe to keep up with...